Was sitting at my sister's big desk (formerly mine) at home, and observed how the SPM books have been replaced with STPM fare, 85% of which are/were mine.

The Literature in English folder includes my little essay on Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party (was so proud of that one), and a ruled page full of lists (yes I was very fond of lists) on both sides. In the margins there's stuff like, a quote taken from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre:

and

There's the Pengajian Am folder containing a big fat environmentally unfriendly amount of presentation handouts, including the one that grossly plagiarised my prior work, as recounted in the relevant post here.

The reference books brought back many memories, but Microeconomics in particular was especially revealing.

For starters, inside the plastic wrapper in front is a small printed picture of my Form4/5 gang, while at back are the very first twelve lines of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the very first paragraph of Jane Eyre, and the first stanza of Thomas Hardy's "Neutral Tones," all probably transcribed from memory.

Somewhere halfway through the syllabus, there was a period of time when I would write in the (very wide) margins non-academic scribblings, names of songs playing on the radio at the time, or whatever occupied my mind as it wandered from studies.

Aisya would be pleased to know that I took down "Fix You - Coldplay" when I was studying Penentuan Keseimbangan Diskriminasi Harga in a Pasaran Monopoli.

Pages later, when discussing the benefits of such a market, is a small "thinking of you..." This is, to the best of my memory, the second-most incriminating margin note from those days. I'm not even sure who "you" is... But I can make an educated guess. Don't worry, it's none of ya'll! :P

At various places, including "Peralihan keluk hasil purata dan hasil sut ke bawah" under Keseimbangan Firma Persaingan dalam Jangka Panjang, as well as the introduction to the chapter on wages and labour unions, are "yen yen was here! [time date]" in different styles and doodles. What on earth?! It's MY book, of course I was here! Lol. Actually I do know what those were. They were practice entries for records purposes. I used to like to leave my stamp on people's books/notes, always in pencil of course. *wink*


Oh how my handwriting has changed...

I hope the first, after today's experience, see that I was and am not giving empty instructions, and how much I wish they would help me to help them.

As for the second, you know nothing about my class and the situation. Just because I am obviously younger than you are, you have no right to dump your attitude on me. Who are you to cry injustice when your own lecturer so graciously waits and accepts my compromise, which, by the way, if you stopped to listen, is not forever?

But I believe it is no accident.
He is throwing all this, among others, at me, at this time, for a reason.